The New American
It was in 2013 that an astrobiologist named Jack O’Malley-James warned that life on Earth would eventually end due to a depletion of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Now we’re hearing, also contrary to global warming hand-wringing about excess amounts of the gas posing a danger, that we may one day purposely pump it into our atmosphere as a life-preserving measure.
So says writer Matt Rowe, reporting on Patrick Moore’s book Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom. Moore is an ecologist and ex-Greenpeace figure who left the environmental organization over its embrace of, as he puts it, “anti-human and anti-science campaigns that were more concerned with fundraising and scaring people with mis-information” than with sensible conservationism. Moore has since become a climate-change realist who combats global-warming alarmism.
Writing at American Thinker Monday, Rowe points out that while Moore doesn’t deny that the climate is changing (it always does, naturally), he analyzes matters within a geological-time context. He thus observes that the climate humans have enjoyed for the last 160,000 years is far from the Earth’s norm. In fact, we’re currently in a relatively cold period often known as the Late Cenozoic Ice Age or Antarctic Glaciation. (Presumably quoting Moore, Rowe identifies our current time as the “Pleistocene glacial period”; apparently, experts disagree on the classifications.)
